Western Digital expands its range of storage solutions with the WD Blue SN5000, an SSD that stands out for its large storage capacity with versions up to 4 bytes.

As SSDs completely take over the PC market for their performance, It’s time to up your game faced with an ever-increasing amount of data. Western Digital explains that as AI applications continue to create larger multimedia assets, higher capacity, high performance data storage is becoming increasingly important.

And the manufacturer focuses on the unit content creators looking to improve the performance of their computers and benefit from the benefits of higher capacity SSDs. Of course, iva can be used in the same way gaming PCan increasingly voracious type of software that takes up a lot of space.

WD Blue SN5000, features

The unit follows the SN580 series, which was launched just a year ago. In format M.2 2280, can be installed on desktops and laptops thanks to its low profile that does not require dedicated cooling solutions. It supports the NVMe protocol, which allows you to use the drive as a primary drive with auto-boot or as a secondary drive to increase the capacity of the device.

It connects to the PCIe Gen4 interface and offers data transfers 5500 / 5000 Mbytes per second in sequential read/write modes and 690K / 900K IOPS in random read/write. It has technology nCache 4.0the manufacturer’s most advanced data cache, enabling super-fast copying of large files and multimedia with high serial write performance and hybrid SLC cache for creating workflows.

The manufacturer includes a free application Western Digital control panel for disk management and Acronis True Image software for transferring files from previous disks. The WD Blue SN5000 is now available on the manufacturer’s web portal near you 4TB version for 335 euros. It has a durability rating of up to 1200 TBW (terabytes written) and a 5-year limited warranty. If you don’t need that much capacity, WD sells the line in other versions with 500 GB, 1 and 2 Tbytes.